Then finding the Captaine as is said, that used the Salvage that was his guide as his shield (three of them being slaine and divers others so gauld) all the rest would not come neere him.
And comming to the houses of the nuns, he went so neere as to cause their breasts to be tried, that he might vnderstand of their chast liuings.
The slaughter had beene greater, but that the residue which laie in campe, brake foorth about midnight, and in a plumpe togither fled into a castell which was neere at hand, called Grossemound, in the which the king himselfe was lodged.
Now the French king being aduertised that king Henrie laie thus neere to Tailborge, marched thitherwards with all his puissance latelie reenforced with new supplies, and approching to Tailborge, had the towne deliuered vnto him.
Whilest diuerse of the capteins within were talking with the king on the one side of the towne towards the meadowes, the lord Philip Bassett approched the walles neere vnto the monasterie of S.
Our emulation, things a farre off command, But Envy haunts things that are neere at hand.
A spermaceti whale[51] of 62 foote long neere Welles.
I gave unto a gentleman which [sic] I can sende you another was killd feeding upon a dead horse neere a marsh ground.
A kind of stork was shott in the wing by the sea neere Hasburrowe & brought aliue vnto mee.
The Frenchmen that came ouer at this first time landed at Orwell, and at other hauens there neere adioining.
This doone he passed ouer the riuer of Loir, and wan a castell situat neere vnto a promontorie or head of land called Grapelitum, which was woont to be a great succour & aid to Englishmen arriuing on that coast.
Vpon the same hand and side, neere the boords end, sat the duchesse of Yorke and the countesse of Huntingdon.
Is there no body neere that mought listen and here vs?
This Castle taketh the iust compasse of the hill, and no other hill neere it, it is so steepe downe, and so high and ragged, that it will tyre any man or euer he be halfe way vp.
Fiue or sixe dayes after the shippe arriued neere the Seuen towers, which is a very strong hold, and so called of so many turrets, which it hath, standing neere the sea side, being the first part of the city that we came vnto.
Hard by the chariot on both sides thereof, are foure Barons laying hold and attending thereupon, to keepe all persons from approaching neere vnto their emperour.
Neere thereto is the sepulchre of the innocents slaine by Herod, the sepulchres of Paul, of Ierome, and of Eusebius.
Neere adioyning be two chapels of marble, where lie buried most of the emperours with their children and sultanas.
Without the Citie, sixe miles higher into the land, are to be seene neere vnto the riuer diuerse Piramides, among which are three marueilous great, and very artificially wrought.
In this foreward goeth very neere the third part of the people of the Carouan, behind whom go alwayes 25 Spachi armed with swords, bowes and arrowes to defend them from thieues.
He’s reprehended and taken, by Sesu I reioyce very neere as much as if I had discouer’d a New-found Land, or the North and East Indies.
In viewing these intestine and civill broiles of ours, who doth not exclaime, that this worlds vast frame is neere unto a dissolution, and that the day of judgement is readie to fall on us?
But thou doste not know that countrey, where sometyme I did dwell, at a place called Blaxall, neere to that Rushe Bushe.
Also Baldwin de Betun approching neere to the confines of Austrich, when he heard that the duke was dead, returned with the two ladies vnto his souereigne lord king Richard.
But the bishop of Chester had verie ill lucke with his collections; for hauing gathered a great summe of monie to the kings vse, he was spoiled thereof in one night, as he lodged neere vnto Canturburie, being vpon his iournie towards the king.
Neere vnto the palace of the king, there is a treasure woonderfull rich; the which because it is so neere, he doth not account of it: and it standeth open for all men to see in a great walled court with two gates, which be alwayes open.
This kings countrey beginneth twelue leagues from Cochin, and reacheth neere vnto Goa.
Birra is a little towne, but very plentifull of victuals: and neere to the wall of the towne runneth the riuer of Euphrates.
Swan, whereof foure or fiue together is a good signe of being neere the Cape de bona Sperance.
The best pearles come from the Iland of Baharim in the Persian sea, the woorser from the Piscaria neere the Isle of Ceylon, and from Aynam a great Iland on the Southermost coast of China.
Viceroy and Iustice to haue our money againe, considering that they had had it in their hands neere fiue moneths and could prooue nothing against vs.
Basora standeth neere the gulfe of Persia, and is a towne of great trade of spices, and drugges which come from Ormus.
When they were come somewhat neere vnto vs, trooping together, they gaue vs a common or a generall salutation: obseruing in the meane time a generall silence.
Would to heaven, Sir, That syn of pride and insolence you speake of, That pufft up greatnes blowne from others follyes Were not too neere akin to your great Lordship And lay not in your bosom, your most deere one.
Could hee Bee capable of fright and you so neere him?
His name is well knowne in Lincolnsheire neere the fenns: there were his family antient gentlemen before the Conquest; some say ever since the flood.
Neere St. Germains In Paris, in a darke night, & then I fled.
You say very true, Madam, and comes neere to propheticall if the minds of Ladies and gentlemen were elevated to the just and sublime consideration.
You guest very neere it, but his shoulder Has sav'd that joynt.
Looke on't but come not neere it: the very wind on't Will borrow a leg or an arme.
I thinke they will not, My lord, prove hens, but somewhat neere to hens.
Indeed you come neere me now Hal, for we that take Purses, go by the Moone and seuen Starres, and not by Phoebus hee, that wand'ring Knight so faire.
Printed by Richard Ihones: at the signe of the Rose and Crowne neere Holborne Bridge.
White, and are to be solde at his Shop neere the little North doore of Saint Paules Church at the Signe of the Gun.
Printed by Richard Iones, dwelling at the signe of the Rose and Crowne neere Holborne Bridge.
But at his approching neere to the same, Robert Bruce was readie with his power to giue him battell.
Also Occoner of Conneigh, and manie other Irishmen of Connagh and Meth were slaine neere to Aurie by the Englishmen of those parts.
Manie were drowned in a little riuer called Banokesborne, neereto the which the battell was foughten.
There was a great slaughter also made of the Irishmen neere vnto Thistildermote, by the lord Edmund Butler, and an other also at Baliteham of Omorth by the same Edmund.
They tooke vp in such debts as were owing to him in those parts, to the summe of three thousand pounds, and of his rents to the value neere hand of a thousand pounds.
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